Slaney C
@slaney.bsky.social
Non-vintage champagne for all but me.
I write about the weird and the beautiful at https://lacachette.substack.com/
I write about the weird and the beautiful at https://lacachette.substack.com/
Baruch Hashem.
Remains absolutely wild to me we have a functional cure for HIV/AIDS.
Over 91% of Clients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Reach Undetectable Status www.poz.com/article/91-c...
December 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Baruch Hashem.
My 2025 "Best Of" Lists conclude today with a special tribute to @@stevenomadic.bsky.social's flights over the Antarctic Sea Ice, plus the Byzantine Empire, Mel Brooks, and, of course - hockey. That's right - it's our annual DUDES ROCK edition!
Permission to Be Fancy, Part 4
Planes, Podcasts, and Hockey Pucks: Dudes Rock Edition
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December 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My 2025 "Best Of" Lists conclude today with a special tribute to @@stevenomadic.bsky.social's flights over the Antarctic Sea Ice, plus the Byzantine Empire, Mel Brooks, and, of course - hockey. That's right - it's our annual DUDES ROCK edition!
A mensch.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A mensch.
MY PENUMBRAL LADY!
December 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
MY PENUMBRAL LADY!
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eighteenth-century burn!
Some of those pages are so redacted you’d think Parson Yorick just died
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
eighteenth-century burn!
One great thing about being an adult is that you can just have a cup of coffee, take a walk, and listen to Collective Soul.
this is like some old man posting but i’m feeling a little under the weather today and so my exercise this morning is just a long walk and you know what activity rocks? taking a walk.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
One great thing about being an adult is that you can just have a cup of coffee, take a walk, and listen to Collective Soul.
THE YELLOW MITTENS. SO HE CAN BE SEEN ON THE SLOPES.
December 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
THE YELLOW MITTENS. SO HE CAN BE SEEN ON THE SLOPES.
Dudes Rock.
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dudes Rock.
She's resigned. Mamdani handled it fast and that makes me feel better.
If you sincerely apologize for something you said in 2011, I’ll believe you. But not if you left the tweets up until yesterday!
And the Di Blasio admin should have caught those, it's pretty damning that they didn't.
If you sincerely apologize for something you said in 2011, I’ll believe you. But not if you left the tweets up until yesterday!
And the Di Blasio admin should have caught those, it's pretty damning that they didn't.
I am so fucking tired.
judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/money-hung...
judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/money-hung...
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
She's resigned. Mamdani handled it fast and that makes me feel better.
If you sincerely apologize for something you said in 2011, I’ll believe you. But not if you left the tweets up until yesterday!
And the Di Blasio admin should have caught those, it's pretty damning that they didn't.
If you sincerely apologize for something you said in 2011, I’ll believe you. But not if you left the tweets up until yesterday!
And the Di Blasio admin should have caught those, it's pretty damning that they didn't.
I am so fucking tired.
judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/money-hung...
judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/money-hung...
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I am so fucking tired.
judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/money-hung...
judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/money-hung...
So well done.
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
So well done.
When I worked at a legacy retail brand, customers constantly complained, correctly, about diminished quality, but were also allergic to the slightest price increase.
Excellent piece on the changing luxury fashion business. In short, prices are crazy, the goods aren’t as nice as they once were, and buying used is increasingly popular.
For @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s Year Ahead issue, I wrote about fashion’s failure to find new ideas or fix its outrageous overpricing, and the opening that leaves for secondhand marketplaces to sell brands’ better, older, cheaper stuff to their customers instead. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
December 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
When I worked at a legacy retail brand, customers constantly complained, correctly, about diminished quality, but were also allergic to the slightest price increase.
I break down the math on a pair of boots from The Row (aka yassified Eileen Fisher) via The Real Real here:
open.substack.com/pub/lacachet...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I break down the math on a pair of boots from The Row (aka yassified Eileen Fisher) via The Real Real here:
open.substack.com/pub/lacachet...
open.substack.com/pub/lacachet...
This niche skeet getting three likes is the proudest I've ever been
Hear me out: Duff Cooper is the Talleyrand is the Deadpool of the French Revolution
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This niche skeet getting three likes is the proudest I've ever been
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Once you see it, it's hard to miss it. Statements condemning violent attacks targeting Jews that don't actually mention "Jews" or "antisemitism".
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
I am not your canary in the coal mine
The Bondi shooting deliberately targeted Jews. It's important to say so
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December 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Once you see it, it's hard to miss it. Statements condemning violent attacks targeting Jews that don't actually mention "Jews" or "antisemitism".
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
This is a choice — and it's central to the crisis.
My newsletter, out now.
LE THREAD
No Gaston backstory is necessary, but now I want him to Flashman his way through Revolutionary/Napoleonic/Restoration France. Like he unwittingly foils the flight to Varennes, is nearly executed in the Terror, betrays both Napoleon and Louis XVIII, that kind of thing.
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
LE THREAD
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It's really impressive that Buñuel died at age 83, considering that "trickster-coded communist filmmaker" was, from about 1930 to 1990, the most executable kind of guy in the world
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It's really impressive that Buñuel died at age 83, considering that "trickster-coded communist filmmaker" was, from about 1930 to 1990, the most executable kind of guy in the world
Many American universities had Jewish quotas until the 1970s
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Many American universities had Jewish quotas until the 1970s
i'm trying not to be a weepy millenial here: rob reiner brought so much joy to so many people and the absolute foulness of the soul that could say these things is something i'm glad i can't comprehend
Trump's comment about Rob Reiner, a beloved American, really demonstrates the rottenness of his character.
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
i'm trying not to be a weepy millenial here: rob reiner brought so much joy to so many people and the absolute foulness of the soul that could say these things is something i'm glad i can't comprehend
Permission to Be Fancy: Part One
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Permission to Be Fancy: Part One
Getting Bougie With It
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December 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Permission to Be Fancy: Part One
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That is what is written: the advantage of light
Yet, the people who caused that "time of danger" are long gone. We are still here.
We will keep lighting up Hanukkah.
With our hearts and minds going out to the families of those killed, and are with the injured -
We are taught, light from within darkness shines brightest 💔💞
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We will keep lighting up Hanukkah.
With our hearts and minds going out to the families of those killed, and are with the injured -
We are taught, light from within darkness shines brightest 💔💞
4/4
December 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
That is what is written: the advantage of light
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Three days ago. No more words.
Love that for security reasons, the Hanukkah party is at a secret location that won't be disclosed online at any time and only emailed to attendees the day before.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Three days ago. No more words.